Step One, Organize: A PowerPoint projector was stolen out of a CPCC classroom. The vandals now have the power to teach other vandals pilfering strategies with the help of neat bulleting and snazzy, attention-grabbing graphics.
Car Games: On the corner of Eastway Drive and Shamrock Road, a lady tried to park. That’s where the trouble began. Another woman (Lady Number Two) was standing in the parking lot blocking it. Lady Number One honked. Lady Number Two didn’t appreciate being honked at and refused to move. With nowhere to park, Lady Number One left. Two hopped in the car and pursued One. She pulled in front of One and then drove really slowly to annoy her. Then Lady Number Two slammed on the breaks a bunch of times, attempting to get Number One to hit her. At a red light, Lady Number One got out a pad to record Two’s licence plate number. Two yelled, “Bitch, what the fuck you gonna do with my licence plate number? I’m going to beat your fucking ass. Why don’t you go back to Africa?” Two then got out of her car and into One’s vehicle and continued to hassle her. Later, she threw two full cans of food at One’s vehicle causing damage.
Indecisive Criminals: Unknown suspects stole two rocking chairs and a picnic table from the back porch of an east Charlotte home. The picnic table was recovered in the front yard of the same home. Maybe the robbers were redecorating.
Creepy Alert: A babysitter answered the door to find a stranger. The man said he had been asked to take pictures inside the home. The man did not have a camera with him. He was not allowed into the home. Good babysitter.
I Hate the Mail!: A 49-year-old man reported a suspect ripped his mailbox out of the ground and smashed it several times on the ground, causing damage.
Threat Of the Week: A seemingly innocent lawn was the subject of a nasty threat, according to the lawn’s owner. The 32-year-old woman who reported the threat specified that her grass is the element of her lawn that very well could be the target of an attack. A suspect threatened: “You’ll never have a blade of grass in your yard again.”
Blotter items are chosen from the files of the Charlotte Police Department.
This article appears in Aug 2-8, 2006.
